Colorado Heli-Ops offers not just one camera angle during instructional flights, they have four! Being able to review your performance in such detail after an instructional flight is an invaluable tool for learning. The video footage combined with all the audio, including radio traffic, is a fantastic way to analyze your flight and continue your [...]
Hanging around Colorado Heli-Ops is like visiting a free air show these days. Their list of friends is long, distinguished and apparently includes the MD500 eye candy that is AIR2. For this visit they brought N503SH, a 1980 500D that is one of their many great looking 500 series helicopters. You can check out more [...]
The fantastic group of people over at Colorado Heli-Ops have taken delivery of their brand new Frasca Sims. It looks like they have one configured for the R44 and 300 as well as one for their “next operation.” I can only guess that it’s going to be a turbine setup. These particular sims also include [...]
The crew over at Colorado Heli-Ops have put together a great video of what a night tour over Denver would be like. I applaud them for putting in the extra effort to recreate the whole experience from the moment you walk in their front door. With that in mind, am I the only one that [...]
My friends over at Colorado HeliOps got a chance to view the new Robinson R66 up close the day before its official public reveal earlier this year. They posted the pictures taken of the event on their facebook page here. What’s the hint? The description of the album says they won’t be getting theirs in [...]
What’s even better than going to brunch with your significant other? When that brunch is a ruse hiding an early birthday gift in the form of a helicopter ride! We were visiting Denver this past weekend when a 10:30 reservation to eat led me to Colorado Heli-Ops. Walk right upstairs when you enter the building, [...]